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Adriane Lam, a doctoral candidate in geosciences in professor Mark Leckie’s lab, recently launched a public outreach website, “Time Scavengers,” with her friend and fellow scientist, Ph.D. candidate Jen Bauer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Their goal is to explain...

AMHERST, Mass. – Administrators from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the other members of the Five College Consortium will meet with Pioneer Valley Transit Authority administrator Sandra Sheehan on July 24 to discuss recent route reductions and ways to maintain effective service...

The search box on the UMass Amherst Libraries main Web page is now powered by a new search engine, Discovery Search.
Installed following a usability survey this spring, Discovery Search replaced UMA WorldCat on July 1.
The biggest change users will see is the vastly greater number of electronic...

Angelica Bernal, assistant professor of political science, has been named the new director of the Academic Fellows Program (AFP – formerly known as the Academic Leadership Fellows Program) for the 2017-18 academic year.
The program was founded by academic dean Jackie Brousseau-Pereira to...

Harry Rockland-Miller, staff psychologist and director of the Center for Counseling and Psychological Health (CCPH), is retiring this month after 21 years with the university.
The campus community is invited to a reception in his honor on Thursday, Sept. 7 from 4-6 p.m. in the Amherst Room, Campus...

Ph.D. candidate Mariamar Gutierrez Ramirez leads a Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) station to band, weigh and measure local breeding birds and give interested students hands-on experience in field ornithology.

Carolyn M. Larrabee has been named the new director of the Student Legal Services Office (SLSO) and will begin her new duties on July 31.
The SLSO is a student-funded law office providing legal assistance to fee-paying UMass Amherst students and student groups. Located in the Campus Center, it...

Two doctoral students of food science professor David Julian McClements who recently received top awards from the American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) at its annual meeting have gone on to win more recognition for their research excellence.
McClements reports that Ruojie “Vanessa...

The University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Town of Amherst showcased their efforts to create a stronger university-town relationship during presentations at the 2017 International Town & Gown Association conference May 30 to June 1 in Eugene, Oregon.

Kinesiology doctoral student Melanna “Lanna” Cox was recently awarded the Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP) Fellowship. Cox was nominated by her department for this award, which provides a stipend of $25,000 and full tuition for the 2017-18...